About

Alan trained at the Universities of Stirling, Strathclyde and Warwick. He has been a member of the School of Economics at the University of Kent since October 1979. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick in 1983.

Alan is currently a member of CHUDE and the WPEG Steering Committee. He was deputy chair of RAE sub panel 34, Economics and Econometrics, which reported in 2008.

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Publications

Articles

• "Job Insecurity and Wages" (with David Campbell, Andrew Dickerson and Francis Green), The Economic Journal, 117, 2007, 544-566.
• "Inter-Industry Wage Differences and Individual Heterogeneity”, (with W. Collier and A. Dickerson), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 66, 2004, 811-846.
• "Investment and Uncertainty: A UK Company Panel Study", (with A. Henley and A. Dickerson), Economics Letters, 78, 2003, 87-92.
• "Asymmetric Error Correction Mechanisms and UK Consumer Spending", (with A. Dickerson), Applied Economics, 35, 2003, 619-630.
• "Econometric Modelling of UK Aggregate Investment: The Role of Profits and Uncertainty", The Manchester School, 68, 2000, 276-300.
• "Are Aggregate Consumption Relationships Similar Across the European Union?", Regional Studies, 33, 1999, 17-26.
• "Unemployment Equilibria and Input Prices: Theory and Evidence from the United States", Review of Economics and Statistics, (with A. J. Oswald and M. Hooker), 80, 1998, 621-628.
• "Job tenure and asset holdings", Economic Journal, 104, 1994, 338-349, (with Richard Disney and Andrew Henley).
• "The determination of contract wages in West Germany", with Claus Schnabel, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 95, 1993, 297-310.
• "Consumer durables spending and housing market activity", with Andrew Henley, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 39, 1992, 261-271.
• "The Housing Market and Consumer Spending", (with Andrew Henley), Fiscal Studies, 11, 1990, 27-38.
• "Can Existing Consumption Functions Forecast Consumer Spending in the Late 1980s?", (with A. Henley), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 52, 1990, 211-222.
• "Where Have Two Million Trade Union Members Gone?", (with R. F. Disney), Economica, 55, 1988, pp.1-19.
• "Wage Inflexibility in Britain", (with A. J. Oswald), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1987, pp.59-78.
• "On Union Preferences and Labour Market Models: Insiders and Outsiders", (with A. J. Oswald), Economic Journal, 97, 1987, 431-445.
• "A Test of a Model of Trade Union Behaviour: The Coal and Steel Industries in Britain", (with A. J. Oswald and L. Findlay), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 48, 1986, 1-17.
• "Miners Wages in Post-War Britain: An Application of a Model of Trade Union Behaviour", (with A. J. Oswald), Economic Journal, 95, 1985, pp.1003-1020.
• "On the Quantitative Significance of Imperfect Information", European Economic Review, 20, 1983, pp.365-379.
• "On the Role of the Production and Consumption Assumptions for Optimum Taxation", Journal of Public Economics, 17, 1982, 145-55.
• "The Determination of Union and Non-Union Wage Rates", (with A.J. Oswald), European Economic Review, 16, 1981, pp.285-302.

Books

• "Wage Determination and Industrial Prosperity", (with A. J. Oswald), Oxford University Press, December 1989, 216 pages, ISBN 0-9-828692-9.

 

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Research

Research interests

Alan’s research interests are in Labour Economics, Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics. This includes work on Inter-Industry Wages, Job Insecurity, Investment under Uncertainty, and Consumer Spending.

Alan's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pca509.htm

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Teaching

Undergraduate

• EC302 Introduction to Economics (Canterbury)
• EC306 Mathematics for Economics and Business Mode B
• EC309 Statistics for Economics and Business
• EC511 Quantitative Economics

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Consultation hours

• Wed 10.00 – 11.00
• Thu 2.00 – 4.00

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PhD supervision

Current students

• Mr Mihai Paraschiv, registered 2012
• Mr Ivan Mendieta-Munoz, registered 2012
• Mr Isaac Sserwanja, registered 2010
• Mr Reinhold Heinlein, registered 2009

Past PhD students

• Dr Jose Sanchez-Fung: "Essays on monetary policy in the Dominican Republic and Latin America." Completed 2002.
• Dr William Collier: "Labour market heterogeneity: Wage determination and unemployment duration". Completed 2001.

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Administrative roles

• Head of School
• Member of CHUDE
• Member of WPEG Steering Committee

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